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The Wikipedia article for the Midway class mentions the following Essex class design study as one of the origins for the Midway class. What if Essex class sized ships had been built with armored decks?

The CVB-41 class vessels (then unnamed) were originally conceived in 1940 as a design study to determine the effect of including an armored flight deck on a carrier the size of the Essex class. The resulting calculations showed that the effect would be a reduction of air group size - the resulting ship would have an air group of 64,[2] compared to 72[3][4] for the standard Essex class fleet carriers.
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